Thursday, May 28, 2009
From Death Row, Mumia Abu Jamal
"Watching the veins of nature pulse thrugh the night
sea of air, making--if only for milliseconds--daylight
over the hills, I felt renewed. How puny man seemed
beore this divine dance!
I saw, then, that though human powers sought to
strangle and poison me and those around me, they were
powerless. I saw that there is a Power that makes man's
power pale. It is the power of Love; the power of God;
the power of Life. I felt it surging through every pore.
Nature's power prevailed over the man-made, and I felt,
that night, that I would prevail. I would overcome the
State's efforts to silence and kill me."---From his poem
Death Blossom
--The names she mentiones are names everyone should reserach and def. be familiar w/.
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